5 Quotes & Sayings By Barista Uno

Barista Uno is a Seattle-based writer who loves coffee, books, and talking about how they are related. He has an abiding interest in the intersection of history, culture, science, and especially the intersection of coffee and culture. When he's not writing for The Stranger, Barista blogs about his love of coffee at Coffee Culture or you can follow him on Twitter at @BaristaUno.

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I was driven to go into book writing by the very nature of journalism and blogging. Both are ephemeral. Journalists and bloggers can have humongous egos. But in the end, what they write is really a passing show. I wanted something more lasting – a record of sorts, something people can look back to and relish again like hot, home—brewed coffee. Barista Uno
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A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything less is just self—indulgence and intellectual masturbation. Barista Uno
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A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything less is just self—indulgence and intellectual masturbation. Barista Uno
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Unlike the ancients, modern man does not see Mother Earth as some kind of goddess like Gaia, the ancestral mother of all life in Greek mythology. He has de—mythicized her, reduced her to an object, a specimen, to be studied by scientists and exploited by corporations for profit. Barista Uno